NPP's Work: Spotlight on Transparency and Data

Last month the National Priorities Project re-launched a major portion of our website, organizing our federal budget research content into eight issue areas:

Education

Transparency and Data

Military and Security

Taxes and Revenue

Debt and Deficit

Budget Process

Health Care

Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, and Entitlements

This week, we bring you highlights on NPP's ongoing work to make federal budget data more transparent:

In 1983, the U.S. government began publishing a complete report of federal spending in every state, county, and congressional district. In 2012, it stopped. We rely on open data every day to make the federal budget accessible. Our key work on open data is fourfold:

Providing meaning and context

Creating open data

Watchdogging open data

Advocating for better open data

For more on our transparency and data work, check out our video and factsheet.